村落商业经济的变迁及其意蕴——以义乌小商品市场发源地的一个村落为个案

Village Business Economy: Vicissitudes and Their Implications:A Case Study of a Village as One of the Cradles for the Yiwu Commodity Market

文章以浙江义乌小商品市场发源地的后乐村为个案,考察了建国50年来村落商业经济变迁的历史过程,并根据其呈现的“地方性知识”,对一系列传统的现代化理论观点作出了反思。指出村落商业在农村现代性发展中具有重要的地位和作用,村落场域拥有形成和发展商业的内源力,村落的现代化进程遵循着特殊的发展轨迹,测评村落现代化水平应有自身的特殊指标。

This thesis, taking the Houle Village, one of the cradles for the Yiwu Commodity Market in Zhejiang, as a case, probes into the historical change of China＇ s village business economy during the last 50 years, and, in the light of the “regional knowledge” represented therein, reflects on a series of theories and viewpoints on modemization. It argues that village business plays an important role in the modemization of rural areas, that their geographic surroundings endow villages with the intemal motivation for the rise and development of business, and that, as village modernization follows a special way, the evaluation of the modernization level of villages should be based on their own specific criteria.